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Calm down, dears, it’s only £60m

The house that film director Michael Winner promised to the nation is now to be sold in pursuit of a simpler life

Maurice Chittenden

August 21 2011, 1:01am, The Sunday Times

Michael Winner renovated the house after acquiring it for £150,000 in 1972 (Dwayne Senior)

At the age of 75, Michael Winner is finally making a move. Not only is he getting married, he is leaving his childhood home and putting it on the market for more than £60m.

Just weeks before his wedding to his long-suffering fiancée, Geraldine Lynton-Edwards, 70, at Chelsea register office next month, he has discreetly put his home up for sale.

Britain’s answer to the mansions of Hollywood sits in a leafy crescent in Holland Park, west London. With it comes a host of memories of visits by some of the world’s greatest actors, including Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren and Charles Bronson, who played the vigilante in Winner’s Death Wish movies.

Winner intended to leave it to the nation, but the recession and squeeze on…

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